Uttar Pradesh Board

(Papers) UP Board Model Exam Papers (Class-X)

Subject Name: English

Year : 2019-20

Section-A

1.         Read   the  following passage and  answer the  questions given below it:

The   Ganga especially  is  the  river   of  India,  beloved  of her people, round which are interwined her racial memories, her  hopes and  fears, her  songs of  triumph, her  victories and  her  defeats. She  has  been  a symbol of India's age-long culture and  civilization, ever-changing ever-flowing,   and    yet    ever     the    same   Ganga.   She reminds me  of  the  snow covered peaks and  the  deep valleys of  the  Himalayas, which I  have   loved so  much and  of the rich  and vast  plains below, where my life  and work have  been  cast.

i)     Write the  name of the lesson from  which the above noted passage has  been  taken. Who  is  the  author of the  lesson?     2

ii)     Why  is the Ganga beloved of the Indian people? 2

2.         Answer   one    of    the    following   questions   in    about 60 words.                                                                                    4

i)       Who    received  the   letter  and   how    did   he   help Lencho?

ii)     How  can  we  fill  our  country with  the  light  of  good citizenship?

3.         Answer any  two  of the  following questions in about 25 words each:                                                                     2+2=4

a)      Why  did Yama take  the form  of Yaksha?

b)      Who  was  Socrates? Where did he live?

c)     Why  was  Mardana unhappy?
4.         Match  the   words  of   List-A  with    their    meanings  in List-B.                                                                                 4x1=4

List-A                                 List-B

Sacred                               Ruined

Rescue                              Valuable

Destroyed                          Holy

Precious                            Save
 

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